Edmund Andrews

Edmund Andrews (April 22, 1824 – January 22, 1904) was an American doctor, a pioneer in surgery and medical education of the Western United States. He was one of the founders of the Medical Department of the Northwestern University.

Outside of his work in medicine, Dr. Andrews was a geologist of repute, and his work on the early glacial history of North America has been very largely quoted. His papers on geologic subjects have been published in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Science and in Silliman's Journal. Once only has he found time to cross the Atlantic, in 1867, when he visited the colleges and hospitals of London and Paris. In 1877, Andrews married her widowed sister, Frances M. Barrett. Frances Barrett Andrews had two daughters from a prior marriage: Laura Taylor Barrett Windett and Miriam (middle name unknown). Edmund Lathrop Andrews was survived by three sons and two daughters, which would include his and Sarah Eliza's sons and Frances Barrett's daughters by her first husband.

Edmund Andrews died at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on January 22, 1904, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery.